Import:Gabriella Quevedo

Gabriella Evelina Quevedo (January 12, 1997, Kinna, Sweden) is a Swedish guitarist. She grew up in Kinna and got interested in guitar because her father played guitar. Her father is from Argentina and her mother is Argentinian-Swedish. In addition to Swedish, she also speaks English and she understands Spanish.

She began playing guitar at age twelve, discovered fingerstyle guitar, and it led to her recording a number of covers of other guitarists' performances and her own guitar arrangements on YouTube. In July 2017 this channel had 500,000 subscribers and 90 million views. Her main influences are Tommy Emmanuel, Sungha Jung, Kotaro Oshio and Andy McKee, whose music she has made recordings of, and with whom she has appeared in concerts in Sweden and internationally.

Her recording of Hotel California by the Eagles, arranged by Tomi Paldanius, had 17 million views on YouTube in July 2017. In 2012 she won first prize in the category of "young talent" on the Uppsala International Guitar Festival and 2014 Ryan Seacrest's vote on the best cover of the song "Young Girls" by Bruno Mars. In 2016 she was awarded the Hagström grant of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music (Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien).

She first learned to play on her father's Yamaha guitar, but later her parents bought Gabriella her own guitar, a "shiny black Yamaha with a cutaway", which is seen in her earlier videos on YouTube, and was signed by Tommy Emmanuel. She later started playing Taylor Guitars, first a custom Taylor GC8e, then a Taylor 912ce and is an artist supported by Taylor.

Concerts

Gabriella Quevedo has appeared in concerts in Sweden, Norway, Germany, the US and Asia, including:

• with Hansel Pethig, Lemgo, Germany (2012)
• with Sungha Jung, Blomberg, Germany (2012)
• Uppsala Internationella Gitarrfestival, Uppsala, Sweden (2012)
• with Tommy Emmanuel, Gothenburg, Sweden (2012)
• Sundsvall Gitarrfestival, Sundsvall, Sweden (2013)
• with Adam Rafferty, Blomberg, Germany (2013)
• Larvik Guitar Festival, Larvik, Norway (2014)
• with Andy McKee, Gothenburg, Sweden (2015)
• Winter NAMM show, USA (2016)
• concert tour in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China (2016)